covid- 19 Online Learning & family Resources
Please visit our Garden City District’s page on Online Learning.
For some very helpful info about utilizing online learning platforms for both students and teachers, please visit “Remote Learning Tools and Assistive Technology Support w/ Ruth Fuller K-12”
Please be sure to visit the Garden City District’s Mental Health & Wellness Resources page.
Lastly, please take a moment to download and review this wonderful powerpoint presentation from our Garden City High School Support Service Team.
Some other wonderful online learning sites and experiences!
Garden City “Virtual” Recreation Center
The San Diego Zoo has a website just for kids with amazing videos, activities, and games. Enjoy the tour!
Tour Yellowstone National Park!
Explore the surface of Mars on the Curiosity Rover.
This Canadian site FarmFood 360 offers 11 Virtual Tours of farms from minks, pigs, and cows, to apples and eggs.
Indoor Activities for busy toddlers.
Play games and learn all about animals.
Play with favorite PBS show characters and learn too.
Travel to Paris, France to see amazing works of art at The Louvre with this virtual field trip.
This Virtual Tour of the Great Wall of China is beautiful and makes history come to life.
This iconic museum located in the heart of London allows virtual visitors to tour the Great Court and discover the ancient Rosetta Stone and Egyptian mummies.
Read, play games, and hang out with Dr. Seuss
300,000+ FREE printable worksheets from toddlers to teens
Math practice from counting to algebra and geometry
Fave kids books read by famous people.
Crafts, activities, mazes, dot to dot, etc,
Voice based learning... learn through Alexa
Fun games, recipes, crafts, activities
ClickSchooling brings you daily recommendations by email for entertaining websites that help your kids learn.
Math as a fun part of your daily family routine
Online history classes for all ages preteen through adults
Resources for Spanish practice
Experiments Science, Math, Social Studies
Grammar practice for middle grades
Daily free science or cooking experiment to do at home.
Reading passages for grades 3-12, with reading comprehension and discussion questions.
35,000 pages of online content on the cultures and countries of the world.
Tons of free classes from leading universities and companies
Free printable K-8 Reading and Math activity packs (available in English and Spanish)
Digital learning content for preschool through high school
A wide range of math content from middle school through AP Calculus.
Day-by-day projects to keep kids reading, thinking, and growing.
Interactive video earth science based curriculum supplement.
A safe research site for elementary-level readers. They are offering -- free 24/7 access USERNAME: read (case sensitive) PASSWORD: read (case sensitive) https://www.facts4me.com/
Resources for AP students including live reviews, live trivia, and study guides!
Movement and mindfulness videos created by child development experts.
7,000 free videos in 13 subject areas
Carmen Sandiego videos, stories, and lessons for all subject areas
Math Videos with lessons, real life uses of math, famous actors
Entertaining & educational videos for all levels and subjects
Online education program for toddler through high school.
Magic Spell is a carefully crafted spelling adventure.
Resources for AP students
3D printing projects and Coding projects, involving math and other K-12 subjects
Introductory and intermediate music theory lessons, exercises, ear trainers, and calculators.
Online curriculum that builds better writers.
80+ do at home science activities
Daily lessons and educational activities that kids can do on their own
Adaptive curriculum in Math and ELA for Grades K-8
Novel Effect makes storytime a little more fun for kids (and grown-ups too!) As you read out loud from print books (or ebooks!) music, sound effects, and character voices play at just the right moment, adjusting and responding to your voice.
Quick & easy at home projects curated for kids 2 and up
Teaches students how to write a paragraph through interactive online tutorial
PreK-12 digital media service with more than 30,000 learning materials
Curricular content hub specifically designed for K-3 students.
Science and math labs and simulations
An online physics problem and video bank designed for conceptual, standard, honors or AP1 physics.
Prodigies is a colorful music curriculum for kids 1-12 that will teach your kids how to play their first instrument, how to sing in tune & how to understand the language of music! 21 for free
Free videos from around the world from grade 3-12
QuaverMusic is offering free access to general music activities to all impacted schools, including free student access at-home
For students to practice and master whatever they are learning.
Critical Thinking resources for K-6 students
Music Based Spanish Learning
Science simulations, scientist profiles, and other digital resources for middle school science and high school biology
The Shurley English program for grades K-8 provides a clear, logical, and concrete approach to language arts.
Sight reading and sight singing practice exercises.
At home OT, PT, and ST resources designed to build skills in children through movement and play.
Science projects that can be completed with or without Internet access
K-5 curriculum that builds deep understanding and a love of learning math for all students
450 Ivy League courses that you can take
2,500+ online courses from top institutions
Miscellaneous games for all subjects k-8
PreK - 5 games for all subjects
Every course you could possibly want to homeschool preschool - 8
Every course you could possibly want to homeschool for high school
National Geographic Young Explorers is a magazine designed specifically for kindergarten and first grade students. Children can listen to the magazine being read to them as they follow along with the highlighted text.
Learn all about the periodic table
Farmer's almanac for kids... Date, weather, moon phase, etc.
Math Games, Logic Puzzles and Brain Builders
Games, quizzes and fact sheets take kids on a journey through time.
NGAkids interactives offer an entertaining and informative introduction to art and art history.
Randomly generates 356,300,262,144 story starters
Immerse yourself in cryptography
Tons of science experiments that you can do at home
An interactive way to learn history
Just explore, have fun, and learn some science along the way.
Interactive games based on the book series
All sorts of learning here if you dig in
Scratch draws students of all types into coding and lays a foundation for future learning.
A wonderful, endlessly detailed way to get kids engaged in the world of art.
Tests kids’ geography skills. Using images from Google’s Street View, it plops players down in the middle of the street and asks them to figure out where they are.
Allows students to type in any city, state, or country to view an archive of historical photographs and other documents. It’s a unique way to help them learn about history.
Short videos about numbers that help kids explore complex math topics and make math more fun.
A human visualization platform that allows students to explore the human body in really cool ways.
No need to travel to one of the Smithsonian’s zoos or museums — this website brings your child everything from live video of the National Zoo to the Smithsonian Learning Lab right to their screen
Cool Kid Facts gives your child access to educational videos, pictures, quizzes, downloadable worksheets, and infographics. They can use these to learn about geography, history, science, animals, and even the human body.
This interactive website, hosted by the U.S. Government Publishing Office, allows your child to see the ins and outs of the U.S. government by taking a series of learning adventures with none other than Benjamin Franklin.
This NASA initiative covers a wide range of topics including weather, climate, atmosphere, water, energy, plants, and animals.
Ask Dr. Universe is a science-education project from Washington State University. Kids can send Dr. Universe any question they may have about history, geography, plants, animals, technology, engineering, math, culture, and more.
Your child can play games, learn fun facts, and find out how to turn coin collecting into a hobby.
From rainbows to tornadoes and winter storms to tsunamis, meteorologist Crystal Wicker breaks down the fascinating world of weather.
Kids Think Design explores careers in fashion design, graphic design, interior design, book design, product design, film and theatre, architecture, animation, and environmental design.
This educational website hosted by the Smithsonian Museum takes a deep dive into ocean life.
Brainscape offers over a million flashcard decks for every subject, entrance exam, and certification imaginable.
The Theta Music Trainer offers a series of online courses and games for ear training and music theory.
Banzai exposes students to real-world financial dilemmas to teach them the importance of smart money management.
Innerbody explores the 11 bodily systems in depth. With interactive models and detailed explanations, this website will help them learn more about the internal mechanics of the amazing human body.
Math and logic problems for ages 5 and up to adult
Science podcasts to listen to with your kids
Tons and tons and tons of games some learning some just fun
Crafts, projects, science, recipes for young children
Engineering challenges with things you have at home
Online photograph jigsaw puzzles You can set the pieces from 6-1000+
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